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| Packard Clipper Clipper (1956 only) | |
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 1955 Packard Clipper Custom 4-door Sedan | |
| Overview | |
| Production | 1941–1942 1946–1947 1953–1955 1956 (Clipper marque) 1957 |
| Assembly | United States Australia |
| Body and chassis | |
| Related | Packard Executive Packard Panther |
| Chronology | |
| Predecessor | Packard 200 |
The Packard Clipper is an automobile that was built by the Packard Motor Car Company (and by the later Studebaker-Packard Corporation) for model years 1941–1942, 1946–1947 and 1953–1957. For 1956 only, Clipper was classified as a stand-alone marque.[1] The Clipper was introduced in April 1941, as a mid-model year entry. It was available only as a four-door sedan. The Clipper name was re-introduced in 1953, for the automaker's lowest-priced lineup. By 1955, the Clipper models were seen as diluting Packard's marketing as a luxury automobile marque. It was named for a type of sailing ship, called a clipper.[2][3]
For only the 1956 model year, the Clipper became a stand-alone make of automobile produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. The Clipper line was aimed at the middle-price field of American automobiles that included DeSoto, Oldsmobile, Hudson, and Mercury. Following the closure of Packard's Detroit, Michigan factory in 1956, the Clipper marque was discontinued, although the Clipper name was applied to 1957 Packards that were built at Studebaker's South Bend, Indiana, factory.
- ^ Van Boggart, Angelo (18 December 2010). "24". Just Packards. Krause Publications. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-1440214271.
- ^ Flory, J. "Kelly" Jr. (2008). American Cars, 1946 to 1959; Every Model, Year by Year. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7864-3229-5.[page needed]
- ^ Gunnell, John, ed. (1987). The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Kraus Publications. ISBN 0-87341-096-3.[page needed]